Brown bear habitat

Brown bears are adaptable animals found in a wide range of different habitat. Examples of brown bear habitat are the tundra, the taiga, chaparral, deserts and dunes, savannah and grassland, forest, scrub forest and mountain habitat.

The tundra is a habitat characterised by low and mat-like or shrubby vegetation. This type of brown bear habitat can be found at high latitudes where the cold climate limits the plant growth. Tundra habitats can also be found at really high altitudes. Tundra habitats are typically subjected to permafrost and the growing season is short. 

Taiga habitats are found at in a band across northern North America, northern Europe and northern Asia. Smaller taiga habitats can also be formed on high elevations. This type of brown bear habitat is characterised by long winters and short summers. During the winter season, the temperature can drop very far. The summers are quite wet. This type of brown bear habitat consists mainly of coniferous or boreal forests, but some deciduous trees can also occur.

Chaparral is a type of brown bear habitat characterized by a Mediterranean climate. Chaparrals are not only found near the Mediterranean Sea; they occur in many different parts of the world in coastal regions located between 30 and 40 degrees latitude. The typical Chaparral vegetation is dense, spiny shrubs with evergreen leaves. The leaves are usually hard or waxy. Fires are common in Chaparral regions. 

You can find brown bear habitat in many different parts of the world, but chiefly in temperate regions. The brown bear habitat once occupied a vast area that stretched from central and northern Europe into Asia. Brown bear habitat could also be found in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco and Algeria on the African continent, and on the North American continent the brown bears roamed as far south as Mexico.

In North America, the preferred brown bear habitat seems to be open areas, e.g. alpine meadows, tundra and coastlines. Before the arrival of the Europeans, the brown bear habitat extended over the Great Plains. In Europe, a majority of the Brown bear habitat is found in mountain woodlands that are still not heavily settled by man. In Russian Siberia, forests make up the main brown bear habitat.

The geographical distribution of brown bear habitat has today been extremely reduced by human activity. Brown bear habitat still exists from Western Europe to Palestine in the Middle East. The Atlas Mountains in northwest Africa might still hold a smaller population of brown bear. Siberia is still a brown bear rich environment, and there is also brown bear habitat to be found in the Himalayan region and in Hokkaido, Japan. On the North American continent, the most prosperous brown bear habitat is found in Alaska and western Canada. A lot of brown bear habitat in the United States has been destroyed by human settling. There are for instance no longer brown bears to be found in Sierra Nevada and the southern range of the Rocky Mountains. The brown bears that used to live in Northern Mexico were eradicated in the 1960’s.  .

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